Privacy Policy

  1. About TheWorldIWanttoSee and this Privacy Policy

TheWorldIWanttoSee (the “Website”) is a platform for young people to post a statement regarding the world they would like to see on a virtual “wall”.  Messages may only be posted on the wall with the consent of their parents and with the assistance of their teachers 

This Privacy Policy covers use of TheWorldIWanttoSee.com domain on which an authorized link to this Privacy Policy is posted. This Policy covers our practices regarding TheWorldIWanttoSee users of all ages, including a unique set of practices for those under the age of 13 (“children” or “child”). 

If you are an EEA resident, this whole Policy applies to you. However, EEA residents should see Section 15 below, which will inform you in detail about the personal information we process, how we process it, for which purposes we process it, with whom we share it, on what legal basis we process and transfer your personal information and which rights you have regarding the processing of your personal information.

TheWorldIWanttoSee is also committed to protecting the privacy of our users, including children. Please see the “Children’s Privacy and Parental Controls” section below for more information about your rights as a parent or legal guardian of our children users and the measures we take to afford children users with additional protections and comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). To learn more about COPPA, you may consult this simple one-page informational guide from the kidSAFE Seal Program – www.kidsafeseal.com/knowaboutcoppa.html.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy and/or data practices, please contact us by completing the contact page on this website.

  1. Definitions

“Personal Information” means any information relating to a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, or an online identifier.

“Processing” means any operation which is performed on personal information, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or any kind of disclosure or other use.

  1. How TheWorldIWanttoSee Works

TheWorldIWanttoSee works like this:

    • A teacher will register as an admin on the site (“Registered Admin” or “User”).
    • A Registered Admin will be allowed to post statements collected from his/her students provided the student’s parent(s) have consented in writing to their posting the statement on the Website. 
    • Subject to the foregoing, a statement written by a child regarding the world they would like to see can be posted on the wall.

The names of the children providing the statements posted on the wall and any additional personal information regarding the children may only be posted on the wall with the express written consent of the child’s parent.  

 

  1. Information Provided by Registered Admin when Setting Up an Account on TheWorldIWanttoSee

Registered Admin

All Users must create a TheWorldIWanttoSee Account to post statements on the wall. To create a TheWorldIWanttoSee account, we will ask the teacher to create a unique username and password (so that the teacher can log in to their account), and to provide other demographic information such as their age or date of birth, etc.

Users are encouraged not to create a username that reflects their own name or other personal information. Users should also not pick a password that is easy to guess, and should not share their password.

Users may be asked to provide or may choose to add an email address to their account for added verification and/or to enable certain features. The primary purpose for this email address is to provide account security, as this is the only way for TheWorldIWanttoSee to check the authenticity of an account owner.  Users may change the email address associated with their account at any time; however, a notification will be sent to the previously provided email address upon making that change.

Additional Personal Information You Provide When Using TheWorldIWanttoSee Features

    • Messages posted on the wall.  Messages posted to the wall may be monitored, filtered and moderated for purposes such as removal of profanity, personal information, and other inappropriate statements. 
    • When you contact or send communications to us. For example, when you report a problem, or submit questions, concerns, or comments regarding the Website or its content, we may collect contact information such as your email address and other important information about your inquiry or concern. This information is used to respond to your communications, fulfill your requests, or provide other customer support.
    • When you browse, navigate, or otherwise interact with the Website. We collect information from your device when you visit our websites, as outlined in the “Cookies and Similar Technologies” section below.

You are under no obligation to provide personal information to TheWorldIWanttoSee when requested. However, if you choose to withhold any requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain websites and features.

In addition to the specific uses above, any information that you provide or that we collect on the Website may be generally used for the following purposes:

    • To operate, maintain, and improve the Website;
    • To give you access to the Website and related features, or restrict your access;
    • To personalize the Website or content on the Website, as well as make it more user-friendly;
    • To allow you to manage your TheWorldIWanttoSee account or account information, update your account settings, and (where applicable) make purchases or subscribe to websites;
    • To communicate with you about the Website (feature updates, etc.);
    • To provide technical support or customer service;
    • To detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity;
    • To research technological development and demonstration;
    • To identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
    • To audit interactions, transactions, and other compliance activities; and
    • To protect the integrity, safety, or security of the Website or our users, comply with legal obligations, or enforce compliance with our Terms of Website, or other restrictions placed on your use of the Website.

 

  1. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Like most websites, we use cookies and other standard Internet technologies to help us improve our Website.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, for example so you don’t have to re-enter them whenever you come back to the website or browse from one page to another.

A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:

    • Session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser; or
    • Persistent cookie which remains on the user’s computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:

    • First-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain (in this case TheWorldIWanttoSee.com domain); or
    • Third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page’s domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain

Pixel Tags/Web Beacons

A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon) is a piece of code embedded in the Websites that collects information about visitors’ engagement on that web page. The use of a pixel allows us to record, for example, that a visitor has visited a particular web page or clicked on a particular advertisement.

How we use cookies

When you visit or access the Website, we may – by means of cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and/or other similar technologies – automatically collect technical information about the devices and software you use to access the Website, such as the type of Internet browser or mobile device you use, the website or source that linked or referred you to the Website, your IP address or device ID (or other persistent identifier that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device on the Internet), the operating system of your computer or mobile device, and other similar technical information. These same technologies (or a combination of them) may also be used to help us:

    • Capture and store users’ preferences, account settings, and certain login information (for convenience, user verification, and account security);
    • Compile statistics and analytics about your use of and interaction with the Website, including details about how and where our Website is downloaded from or accessed, how often a user visits or uses the Website, the date and time of user visits to, and actions on, the Website, which areas of the Website are visited and for how long, information regarding in-game activities, and other similar traffic, usage, and trend data;
    • Mobile analytic tools to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your device and gain insights about how mobile software is used;
    • Gather important functionality, testing, and performance data about our Website, 
    • Gather demographic information about our user base; and;
    • Perform other similar functions

We will not use cookies or similar technologies other than for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.

Your choices

Most web and mobile device browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set.

Some browser manufacturers provide comprehensive help relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information:

You can also learn more about cookies by visiting https://www.allaboutcookies.org/, which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block or delete cookies that are already on your computer.

Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on the Website, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website.

  1. Information Sharing

Please note that TheWorldIWanttoSee has not and does not sell personal information about you to third-party companies for their independent purposes. TheWorldIWanttoSee may disclose your information for a business purpose as set forth below.

Any personal information submitted on the Website will be available to anyone who has access to that content, including other users, and can be read, collected, or used by other users of the Website. We are not responsible for how other individuals use the information posted in this manner.

Legal disclosures

We may disclose personal information about you as required or permitted by law and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we also may disclose personal information about you in response to a request from law enforcement agencies, regulators, or other public agencies (including schools or children services), or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure may prevent a crime, facilitate an investigation related to public safety or protect the safety of a child using our Website, protect the security or integrity of our Website, or enable us to take precautions against liability or to protect our rights.

De-identified information

We share aggregated, automatically-collected, or otherwise de-identified personal information with third parties for various purposes, including (i) compliance with reporting obligations; (ii) for business or marketing purposes; (iii) to assist us and other parties in understanding our users’ interests, habits and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions and/or functionality available through the Websites.

  1. Security and Data Retention

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect the personal or other sensitive information submitted to us against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control. While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we use reasonable efforts to prevent it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we do not accept liability for unintentional disclosure.

When using the Websites or providing personal information to us, we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Websites. If we learn of an incident that may qualify as a breach under applicable law, we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a notice on the Websites, by mail or by sending an e-mail to you.

Retention

TheWorldIWanttoSee may retain users’ account data internally solely for posting on the wall and can be removed at any time at the request of the User.

  1. Children’s Privacy and Parental Controls

We recognize that children deserve added protections with regard to their personal information and privacy online. For this reason, we do not allow children to register on the site directly.  

If you are a child, you should definitely talk to and ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) for permission before posting a message on the wall. If you do not get such permission, you should not use our Website.

Parents should contact TheWorldIWanttoSee immediately if they have any concerns regarding the Website, wish to review information collected from your child, or have that information modified or deleted. Please see the Contact Information section on the Website for further details. If we become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Data, we will delete any Personal Data we have collected, unless we have a legal obligation to keep it, and terminate the child’s account and/or revert them to the underage experience, as applicable.

  1. Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information

If personal information about you changes, or if you no longer desire to use our Website, you may correct, update, amend, or deactivate your account under your account settings or by contacting TheWorldIWanttoSee. 

Storage and International Transfer of Your Personal Information

TheWorldIWanttoSee is based in the U.S. Your personal information which we collect are sent to and stored on secure servers located in the United States of America. Such storage is necessary in order to process the information.

  1. Additional Information for California Residents (effective January 1, 2020)

In accordance with applicable law, you may have the following rights:

      • Access to/Portability of Personal Information. You can receive a copy of categories of personal information and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the past 12 months, consistent with legal requirements. In addition, you may have the right in some cases to receive or have your electronic Personal Data in a portable format or transferred to another party.
      • Correction. You can request correction of your personal information where it is inaccurate or incomplete. In some cases, we may provide self-service tools that enable you to update your personal information or we may refer you to the controller of your personal information who is able to make the correction.
      • Deletion. You can request we delete personal information we collect or maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law.
      • Restriction of or Objection to processing. You can request restriction or object to the processing of your personal information, and you have the right to opt in or opt out of the sale of your Personal Data to third parties, if applicable, where such requests are permitted by law.

Some of these rights can be exercised by updating your account within the Websites, or you can contact us as set forth in Section 1 above for other requests. We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy, we will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.

  1. Additional Information for EEA Residents

In the course of visiting our websites and apps, and/or using our services and products, we may process the following personal information:

    • Login information, which may include your IP address, device type, name, date and time of your visit, information on your browser version, information on your operating system, including language settings, MAC addresses, and User ID. We will process this information to provide you with the websites, apps and our online services. The legal basis for this processing activity is Article sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b (“performance of a contract”) and lit. f (“legitimate interest”) GDPR. It is our legitimate interest to guarantee the websites’ stability and security.
    • Account information, e.g. information such as your name, username, login and password details, location information, user-generated content, contact details and other personal information that are used for participating in the Website feature we are offering. We process this information to provide our Websites to you. The legal basis for this processing activity is Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR (“performance of a contract”).
    • Email addresses you provided us with for added verification and/or to enable certain features. The bases for processing this personal data are Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b (“performance of a contract”) and f (“legitimate interest”) GDPR. TheWorldIWanttoSee has a legitimate interest of providing a safe and secure Platform, especially to protect children.
    • Information relating to contacting our customer service, e.g. when you report a problem, submit questions, concerns or comments. We may process your email address, your name and information relating to your inquiry or concern in order to respond to your communications, fulfill your requests, or provide other customer support. This processing activity is based on your consent according to Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR and/or Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR (“performance of a contract”), depending on the initial purpose for contacting our customer support.
    • Messages posted on TheWorldIWanttoSee via the Wall. We process this information to monitor, filter and moderate this information for the purposes of being able to remove profanity, personal information, and other inappropriate conversations. Additionally, we may use pre-filtered comments and messages for other purposes such as training and improving our filter technology. The legal basis for this processing activity is TheWorldIWanttoSee’s legitimate interest in being able to defend ourselves from possible liability claims that may arise from unlawful comments posted by you, Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR (“legitimate interest”). Please note that any personal information submitted by you in forums and similar means offered by us is available to anyone who has access to this forum including other users. The personal information posted by you can be read, collected or used by other users of these forums and could be used to send unsolicited messages.
    • Cookies. We will use certain cookies only if you have previously consented to such use. When you visit our website with an EEA IP address, a cookie banner will appear asking you for your consent. You can manage your choice by clicking on “manage cookie preferences” in the cookie banner. We will save your choices in the form of a cookie. This cookie has a limited effective period of one year. The legal basis for this processing activity is Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR (“consent”). In addition, you can also manage cookies using your browser settings. For further information on cookies and similar technologies see Section 7 above.

Please note that we do not use your personal information for automated decision making which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

TheWorldIWanttoSee is based in the U.S. Your personal information that we collect is sent to and stored on secure servers located in the United States of America. Such storage is necessary in order to process the information.

  1. Privacy Policy Changes and Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices at any time, so please review it frequently. If we update this Policy, changes will be reflected on this page and we will update the “Last Updated” date posted below. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will attempt to notify you by email (by sending an email to the email address specified in your account, if an email account is associated with your account), or by means of a prominent notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We will obtain prior parental consent if any changes we make to this Policy affect users under the age of 13 in a way that requires such consent under COPPA or the age of 16 in a way that requires such consent under the European General Data Protection Regulation.

 

Late updated July 7, 2020